Golden master
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A Golden Master is a reference model in hardware/software development.
The Golden Master is usually the RTM (released to manufacturing) version, and therefore the first public/commercial version. It represents the development stage of "RTM" (Release To Manufacturing), often referred to as "going gold", or "gone golden".
Apple, Inc. can be seen using the term in a document, first written in April 1988, describing its software versioning system.
The term is often confused with "gold master" which refers to a physical recording entity such as that sent to a manufacturing plant. Apple, Inc. used the term to describe the sending of a physical gold master disc to manufacturing in a Press Release written in March 2001.
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